Short n Sweet.

I review, in brief, how my trip to Edinburgh last week went.

• AICR
• Cure for cancer, Seamus Martin
• Personal challenge and social awkwardness
• Scientists with the cold
• Getting back to the day job
• Pro podcaster

Apologies for the quality of the sound in parts of this podcast, hopefully it doesn’t distract too much.

I’ve compressed the audio to reduce the file size.
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This is a LONG podcast, almost 1 hour. I fairly rabbit on…

• Traveling along the M8 to Edinburgh
• Another podcast production job, this time for AICR
• Model coverage of an event via Learning & Teaching Scotland
• Ewan’s comments
• AICR’s committee meeting and how they decide who to grant funds to
• Staying at the Sheraton Grand Hotel
• Hoping to make a Tartan Stories podcast on how a small, Scottish-based cancer charity spends it’s money
• Role of producers
• Rob Dolby and Top of the Pods
• You know what your listeners want
• Texture, flavour, look and feel of podcast is under your control
• You must have control over this as the producer of the content
• Podcast production is a cottage industry
• Standards you need to adhere to as a producer
• I’ve put my thumb print on all the podcasts I produce even though the subject matter isn’t always the same
• Producers deserve the credit and should protect and cherish the role
• Football podcasts
• The Game
• Football Weekly
• Change of producers
• James Richardson
• Football Italia
• Shopping and photos in Edinburgh, comments welcome
• Apple store story
• Stairway photo
• TUAW post
• Clark’s BBC Tech article
• NY Times (sorry, no link)
• Photography and art at school, Scotvec Module
• Princess Street, Lothian Road
• Ian Rankin
• John Rebus
• BarCamp Edinburgh
• Corstorphine
• Playing 5-a-side football
• Heriot-Watt Uni
• Vladimir Romanov and Heart of Midlothian
• Winter holiday and Brad
• Walking Tess
• Murrayfield
• Arriving at the hotel
• MacBook Pro Fund - on the right of the site

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• Camping in Scotland
• Culzean Castle
• Jose Mourinho
• Coffee needs
• Grace & Conkers
• Children's energy
• Vladimir tells us about camping holidays in Albania
• Back home from camping, complete with typically British weather round up
• Creatively inspired
• Edirol recorder
• Scottish Learning Festival
• Confidence
• New podcast...
• Comments on the site were nice to come back to
• Thanks to Heather for her generous MacBook Pro fund donation
• Click the ads!
• GoDaddy

Day 2 of the Scottish Learning Festival 2007, recording in the car again on the way there.

I chat it up about how day 1 went

• technical difficulties (throttled wifi)
• talk to me, teacher!
• Healthy eating (podcast)
• Learning from drumming (podcast)
• SLF isn’t stuffy, it’s about fun!
• Dr Peter Merrotsy had never seen anything like it…! (podcast)
• Glamorous production assistant
• top mobile podcast production tip - keep a note of the file name/number and what’s on that file
• In The Wild
• Ewan McIntosh says kids snack on information
• Stuart Cosgrove and the Daily Record
• Matt Locke
• Hue and Cry
• No Half Measures, Tippi.
• The Tall Ship
• Glasgow Science Centre
• Disabled Parking
• GoDaddy
• MacBook Pro Fund
• Bozilla - The Box That Got Away

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Traveling into Glasgow to attend the Scottish Learning Festival. My remit is to produce 1 podcast per half hour based on interviews etc with delegates and speakers.

I chat it up about a bunch of stuff including Sighthill’s cosmopolitan vibe, cleaning Elliot Davis’s windows and lack of feedback for this podcast/blog!

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This time on Mark:My Words;

• MacBook Pro Fund (see the tip jar)
• GoDaddy coupon code - pod35
• Changing the format of your podcast.
• Listener loyalty.
• UK Podcasting/Community/Scene (yuk) and its inward looking-ness.
• Tea & Podcasts
• UK Podcast Forum
• UK Podcast Association
• Desert Island Geek
• What would I learn at PodCamp versus BarCamp?
• MacBreak Weekly.
• Merlin Mann.
• Moleskine notebooks.
• Baldness.
• Flickr.

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Come with me as I talk about Professional Window Cleaner magazine, collecting window cleaning money and changes to my village.

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Jumping ahead in the episode numbers a little to bring you this Mark:My Words. Finniston's new album comes out next month, so here's a little preview.

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Season 01 Edition 04 Play Some music from IODA, a clip from Harry Enfield and YouTube and a phone chat with David Beckham. Nice. -

Download "Your Ex-Lover Is Dead" (mp3)
from "Do You Trust Your Friends?"
by Stars
Arts & Crafts

• Buy at Gallery AC
• Buy at iTunes Music Store
• Buy at eMusic
• Buy at Rhapsody
• Buy at Napster
• Stream from Rhapsody

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Download "Monolith" (mp3)
from "Beautiful Targets"
by Hopewell
Tee Pee Records

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Download "The Night Starts Here" (mp3)
from "In Our Bedroom After the War"
by Stars
Arts & Crafts

More On This Album

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Download "Ten Percenter" (mp3)
from "93-03"
by Frank Black
Cooking Vinyl

• Buy at iTunes Music Store
• Buy at Napster

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Big thanks to Matt.